Whats the easiest way to get to the chassis on a 4600?

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Whats the easiest way to get to the chassis on a 4600?

When I disassembled my Defender monitor, I found it extremely difficult to get to the chassis and by the time I got to it, I had the entire frame disassembled and everything laying in a huge mess. I need to do some work on my Gorf monitor and to my dismay, it was yet another 4600. Is there an easier way to take off the chassis without blowing the whole thing up like I did with the Defender? Anybody have a step by step guide for us 4600-tards?
 
Your chassis is either secured to a solid metal pan with four screws or it has it's own smaller pan with tabs on one end that slide into rails and two screws on the other. If you have a pile of loose framework, you just learned the hard way.
 
I know this probably doesn't help a lot but I seem to remember pulling the monitor from my gorf being a little bit of a pain. That said it will come out in one piece with the full monitor frame, tube and chassis all together.
 
I don't know what the big deal is. Take out the front and back screws on the left side of the chassis, then desolder the width coil wires so you can leave that with the frame. Take out the top bolt on the flyback, then loosen the bottom one so it'll slide up and off. Pull the neckboard, disconnect the yoke, degauss, video and power connectors, and pull it out....
 
I've just being doing the same thing with the 4613 in my Defender. My chassis was set up a bit differently to some of the 4600s I've seen pictured (eg, the location of the wdith coil), but I found this helpful thread which on a 4600 that had the same layout as mine:

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=131.msg697#msg697

Ken also kindly told me both to watch out for a beaded wire tie that might still be present at the base of the sound/power board that you need to cut and to pull the black button things on the same board up to release the locking tension.

Other than that, I found it just a matter of going slowly and taking notes.

Good luck, Dominic

Oh, and because I didn't have a socket spanner, I had to remove the side of the monitor farme to get at the back right-side screw of the chassis.
 
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